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<div><strong>Author:</strong> Dennis Baker</div>
<div><strong>Publisher:</strong> AbbottPress (2013)</div>
<div><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback, 176 pages</div>
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<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Garamond&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Author Dennis Baker has told a beautiful, but sometimes difficult to reflect upon, story about the impact of war. No matter the particular service to our country, whether actively participating in the military, or becoming a part of it due to a family member’s service, all are affected. I believe that </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Restless Hearts </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">goes to the heart of service. The subtitle of the story, </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What if Fallen Heroes Could Go Home? </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">presents an interesting question and Dennis Baker allows that to be the case through this story. He also draws on earlier national heroes to provide the support needed for the completion of a failed mission. We each need to discover from where we can draw our strength for the “missions” we face each day.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Garamond&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just what can we learn from those who have gone before us? Do we pay attention to how our loved ones have been affected by military service? Or do we pretend that it never happened? Time heals all wounds, but does it really? Service, whether during wartime or not, changes people. Sometimes for the better but, not always. This book might just be the catalyst for a family discussion that could begin to heal some wounds. </span></span></p>
<p>Reviewed by: <em>Joyce Gilmour</em> (2014)</p>
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<p>Restless Hearts is a book for all veterans and active duty military. It’s a fictional story of hope and destiny that follows five fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen in search of closure to their unfinished lives.</p>
<p>Restless Hearts will captivate your heart and allow you to spend the day with characters that were given the names of real live heroes who once fought for our country covering the period of WWI to current day. This story will take you to the depths of your emotions of sorrow for those who are gone and joy for the outcome of the choices in their journeys.</p>
<p>Make this a part of your recognition for those who have served and are currently serving this country.</p>
<p>Endorsed by Lieutenant General Snowden, the oldest surviving Marine Officer who fought on Iwo Jima, Korea, and Vietnam. Also endorsed by Rear Admiral James H. Flatley, recipient of the Navy’s prestigious John Paul Jones Award for inspirational leadership.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mentioned field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Author(s) Mentioned:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Baker, Dennis</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviewer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Reviewer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Gilmour, Joyce</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-worktype field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Work Type:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/book_reviews" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Book Reviews</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/27" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sci-Fi</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/21" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fiction</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/49" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Military</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/58" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">MWSA Member</a></div></div></div>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:13:23 +0000Jim Greenwald1736 at http://www.mwsadispatches.comhttp://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1736#commentsLeaving Earthhttp://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1723
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<div><strong>Author:</strong> Dean Warren</div>
<div><strong>Publisher:</strong> CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2014)</div>
<div><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback, 276 pages</div>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Dire forecasts of the effects of global warming and population growth have been ignored, and in the year 2062 the earth is overheating. Polar ice is melting and the rising seas are reclaiming the coastline and its cities. Fresh water is scarce, prompting conflicts. Compounding the problems is the rising birth rate. The planet can no longer support the ever increasing numbers of humans. Wars have occurred and civil wars between deniers and scientists have begun, but so far the drastic steps assumed necessary to save the earth have not been taken.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: medium;">References are made to past wars and battles, but little history is provided, leading this reviewer to assume </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leaving Earth</span></em><span style="font-size: medium;"> is a sequel to previous, unnamed novels.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">CO2 emitters must be shut down and birth control must be imposed on all. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">A twenty-seven year old genius physics graduate student, Wolf del Lobos, has the answer. His doctorial thesis proposes a faster than light drive (FLD) utilizing dark energy that will allow humans to colonize other planets. When his professor dies, he is replaced by another professor who becomes Wolf’s nemesis, rejects his thesis and ends his chance to earn a Ph.D. But this does not stop the protagonists. Wolf del Lobos is no ordinary graduate student. A wounded Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor, he is a poet and composer of a symphony. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">As sea levels rise, riots begin and the government collapses. A general gains control as the 50 United States begin to fragment into smaller units. Soon a civil war emerges between the save the planet and the status quo groups, while Wolf rushes to prove his thesis and build FLD scout ships to find habitable planets. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">The president and vice president cannot continue. Billy Benbow, another Marine veteran who lost an arm in an Arctic battle, assumes the presidency and orders the military to enforce a worldwide carbon tax and implement birth control measures.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">As the world spins out of control a habitable planet is found, preparations for leaving earth begin, and aliens are encountered, setting the stage for a sequel.</span></span></p>
<p>Reviewed by: <em>Lee Boyland (2014)</em></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The year is 2062 and humanity has reached the “tipping point” of which the world’s scientists had warned. A global blanket of CO2 has raised temperatures so much that ice sheets melted, seas rose, coral died, species migrated, and farms became poisoned by salt water. And, no matter what mankind could now do, the blanket and its effects would last for hundreds of years. The few feet of ocean rise will be succeeded by a return to seas historically two hundred feet higher than currently. Droughts, floods, and mass human die-offs will initiate wars.<br /> Wolf delLobos, a twenty-seven year old Marine veteran and a physics graduate student, is determined on finding a scientific alternative. He believes that Faster than Light Travel (FTL) is feasible and will allow mankind to homestead unspoiled planets. Wolf will use Dark Energy to form a space bubble that would mimic the FTL inflation that occurred after the Big Bang. <br /> After saving the life of Elinor, a beautiful, twenty year old coed, he becomes ensnared in a love affair. In addition, his physics doctoral thesis that proposes a demonstration of his theory is rejected and an ex-Marine buddy hires the New York Philarmonic to play Wolf’s cantata at an American Veterans Convention. These three campaigns interweave until, amidst global disasters, the girl gets Wolf in bed. Wolf also secures military support of his demonstration, and his cantata is rapturously received by American veterans.<br /> After the concert, Wolf is seduced by the wife of the Philharmonic conductor. Unfortunately, Elinor learns. Both Elinor and the conductor’s wife become pregnant.<br /> Scientific observers warn that cubic miles of the Greenland Ice Sheet are sliding toward the ocean. Also, even larger ice deposits in Antarctica are calving hundreds of icebergs. Manhattan and South Florida are partially flooded, so is the Sacramento Delta and, of course the Gulf Coast. Bangladesh and Venice are gone. The Low Countries are one vast salt lake. The President has a nervous breakdown and dies. When the Chief of Staff takes control in a peaceful coup, Wolf’s buddy. Billy Benbow becomes the general’s political intermediary.<br /> Elinor’s father, an aerospace executive, turns over to Wolf a hangar at the Edwards Air Force Base in Palmdale, above Los Angeles. There, Wolf forms a project team to build a demonstrator and a space plane. Elinor and Wolf reconcile.<br /> In parallel, Billy Benbow leads a world wide effort to shut down fossil fuel burning and CO2 emissions. That, in turn, evokes violent opposition. A mutinous army general assassinates the President/Chief of Staff and Billy takes over. The Saudi’s try an attack in the White House, but fail, and then form a Hydrocarbon Alliance.<br /> Due to twentieth century budgets, America has the largest and most efficient armed forces in the world. Thus it can overawe every nation. Billy issues an ultimatum placing an $1800 tax on every ton of carbon pumped or mined. A fertility suppressant also will be sprayed in the water reservoirs of ghettos and favelas the world over. Refusals are met by the American bombing of foreign capitals and the world settles down for a long period of high water and heat, massive infrastructure projects, and an American Empire.<br /> Wolf’s demonstrator works. He takes up the space plane and travels 59 light years up the Orion spiral arm of the galaxy. He’s holed by a meteorite as he descends to a planet he christens New Earth. After patching his ship and an encounter with a tiger reptile, he returns to Earth to find that observers have detected a large alien ship orbiting the moon. Is another, alien species targeting earth for colonization? <br /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></p>
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<div><strong>Author:</strong> Dean Warren</div>
<div><strong>Publisher:</strong> CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013)</div>
<div><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback, 354 pages</div>
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<p>I really enjoyed this book! Author Dean Warren has written a fascinating story set in a very bleak future that is all too possible,if we don't get our act together. He doesn't preach, he simply sets the scene and allows the inevitable to happen. With the majority of the American population slowly being starved to death and physically restrained to their own areas, I could easily see how someone like Benjamin Bjorn could rise through the ranks in the Marines, leave the military and become the leader in the rebellion. The book is filled with action and suspense. I highly recommend it to all fans of SciFi and futurists.</p>
<p>Reviewed by: Bob Doerr (Jan 2014)</p>
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<p>The end of this century finds the world’s population has doubled, resources like oil, food, and water prove inadequate, and high technology eliminates jobs. Temperatures and tempers are hot and desperate populations on the move. Ben Bjorn, a blond youngster, cons his way into the Marines. He rises to commanding general of a revolution.</p>
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<div><strong>Author:</strong> Jeffrey Wilson</div>
<div><strong>Publisher:</strong> JournalStone (2013)</div>
<div><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback, 256 pages</div>
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<p>Jack is a dedicated high school teacher. His Biology students love him. Life at home couldn’t be better. He has a loving and beautiful wife. He adores his toddler daughter. Jack is happy, content, fulfilled.</p>
<p>Then he has a nightmare. In the dream, he is a US Marine sergeant named Casey. Casey and his team are in the middle of a firefight in Falujah, cut off from their platoon. The smells, the sounds, the feels of combat in the desert are so real, real, too, is the feel of Casey being wounded.</p>
<p>Bullets striking Casey rip Jack from sleep screaming. For a moment, he struggles to understand that he is in his bedroom, that it is his wife, Pam, worrying about what has happened to him.</p>
<p><em>Fade to Black</em> is a psychological thriller. The reader follows Jack from a gripping beginning through sustained tension of recurrent nightmares. Pam is worried sick about her husband. Jack questions his sanity.</p>
<p>At the end, the tale settles to earth like a Blackhawk with an experienced pilot on the controls. The reader is left with two thoughts:</p>
<p>The combat scenes are drawn by a been-there-done-that artist.</p>
<p>The story is woven by an author who has a special understanding of the workings of the mind and heart.</p>
<p>Reviewed by: Jack Zerr (2014)</p>
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<p>Jack is a young man caught between two terrifying worlds. In one, he is Marine Sergeant Casey Stillmam, locked in combat in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq. He is lying next to his dead and dying friends, bleeding in the street - until he wakes up at home, in bed with his wife. In this other world, Jack is a high school science teacher, husband, and devoted father to his little girl. But the nightmares of war continue to haunt him, and to Jack/Casey they feel in many ways more real than his life at home with his family.</p>
<p>When news of killed Marines in Fallujah surface, Jack realizes he knows far more about these men then he should. But, when the dead Marines begin visiting him while he is awake-he realizes he is in serious trouble. Faced with the possibility of losing his mind, or far worse, the nightmares being real, Jack knows he must somehow find a way to bridge the two realities and fight his way back from the nightmares to save his wife and little girl.</p>
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<div><strong>Author:</strong> Nubby Grumpins</div>
<div><strong>Publisher:</strong> Emjay Publishing (2012)</div>
<div><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback, 264 pages</div>
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<p>David Michaelson (aka Nubby Grumpins) once again delights us with rascally tales taken from his childhood. <em>Butterfly Dust and Other Animal Adventures</em> offers a range of stories, vignettes, sayings, and poetry about animals and children. All are done in age appropriate language and simply styling. Some stories, such as “Ollie the Orca,” are written from the viewpoint of the animal. Although it seems to leave the reader hanging, but Ollie turns out to be a page turner, that it, it’s concluded in the book. An interesting way to keep the reader interested.</p>
<p>Most of the stories in the book are about animals the Tuttle family—in reality the Michaelson family of long ago—owned or knew. Grumpy is at his story telling best here. His irrepressible sense of mischief brims over in “Budgie Fights Back” and “Spinning Poor Spooky.” For those who read Michaelson’s <em>Rapscallion Summer, </em>there’s no denying Timmy Tuttle is Michaelson at his rascally best. Poor bird, to have mashed potatoes flung at him. Clever bird, to fight back with a well-aimed green pea at Timmy Tuttle’s head! And who but a rapscallion and his sister would spin a hapless cat on a waxed floor for the pleasure of watching it walk away like a drunken sailor?</p>
<p>Other tales are glad with a sad ending, such as the chronicles of Feisty, the cat, and Tippy, the dog. The latter gave his life to save the Tuttle children from a rattlesnake. The former met a cruel and untimely end at the hands of a neighbor’s child. Yet the boy’s punishment, helping out at the local animal shelter, so suited his crime, that he not only regretted what he did, but ultimately led to his becoming a veterinarian devoted to healing animals, not harming them.</p>
<p>The book’s many drawings are suitable for the under twelve set, some photos, some line drawings. Done in black and white, they represent the respective animals, but the resolution of the pictures occasionally is fuzzy. The three wise camping sayings lack pictures but not wit. My favorite was number two, “No matter where you stand near a campfire the smoke will always find you.” True, very true.</p>
<p>Entries like these make <em>Butterfly Dust </em>a treat not only for children but also for adults who remember what it was like to be a child. Better still, they can be read to children by adults, alternately with a smile of nostalgic longing—or rascally identification.</p>
<p>Reviewed by: <em>Barbara Peacock</em> (2013)</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-tweet-button field-type-tweetbutton field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="tweetbutton-tweet tweetbutton"><a href="http://twitter.com/share" data-size="medium" data-count="horizontal" data-via="" data-related=":" data-text="" data-counturl="http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1324" data-url="http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1324" data-lang="en" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hope you'll stop by the new 'Meet Robert Stanek' website @ <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.robert-stanek.com/" href="http://www.robert-stanek.com/" target="_blank">http://www.robert-stanek.com/</a>. I’ve been writing stories for many years. Though I’ve always been a writer at heart, I never set out to be a writer. What I wanted to be, I didn’t know when I said goodbye to high school. What I wanted to do though, I knew that: I wanted to see the world—and so I did while serving my country in distant lands.</p>
<p>I wrote novels for more than ten years before I ever tried to get published. My big break came with a book about publishing—only a different sort of publishing than you may be thinking. The book was about web publishing and so my career in writing began. While I wrote those other books, I write many, many stories and books for my kids, and I collected them for a few decades, until at my children’s urging I set out to get them published for others to enjoy.</p>
<p>Some of my newest picture books include:</p>
<p>Pirates Stole My Booty (A Silly Pirates Picture Book) <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Stole-Booty-Picture-ebook/dp/B006OE1GLI/" href="http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Stole-Booty-Picture-ebook/dp/B006OE1GLI/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Stole-Booty-Picture-ebook/dp/B006OE1GLI/</a></p>
<p>Mamma Sea Turtle Lost Her Babies (A Silly Colors and Shapes Picture Book) <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Babies-Colors-Picture-ebook/dp/B006NQDD36/" href="http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Babies-Colors-Picture-ebook/dp/B006NQDD36/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Babies-Colors-Picture-ebook/dp/B006NQDD36/</a></p>
<p>Twelve Dresses, One Star (A Silly Picture Book About Being Who You Are) <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Dresses-Silly-Picture-ebook/dp/B006L9D4MK/" href="http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Dresses-Silly-Picture-ebook/dp/B006L9D4MK/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Dresses-Silly-Picture-ebook/dp/B006L9D4MK/</a></p>
<p>How Many Fish? (A Silly Counting Picture Book) (Silly Picture Books) <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.amazon.com/Silly-Counting-Picture-Books-ebook/dp/B006L7SQ16/" href="http://www.amazon.com/Silly-Counting-Picture-Books-ebook/dp/B006L7SQ16/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Silly-Counting-Picture-Books-ebook/dp/B006L7SQ16/</a></p>
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<div><strong>Author:</strong> Jeffrey Wilson</div>
<div><strong>Publisher:</strong> JournalStone (2012)</div>
<div><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback, 248 pages</div>
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<p>An evil force is at work at the Hospital where Nathan is recovering from injuries he received at the hands of his Mom's abusive ex-boyfriend. Demonic looking men with pale faces and glowing eyes lurk in the shadows. Someone is harvesting skin and organs from living donors against their will. <br /><br />In his dreams, Nathan can see these demons in their true form -- evil creatures who feed on the fear and hatred they create in their victims. Nathan's only ally is the Doctor who cares for him. Bound together by their common legacy, they alone seem to share the ability to see the demons for what they truly are. <br /><br />Together they must find a way to stop these creatures before they, and their loved ones, become the next victims.</p>
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<p><em>The Donors</em> by Jeffrey Wilson is probably not a book that I would have picked off the shelf to read, but when presented the opportunity to read it for MWSA, I chose to “get out of my box” and try a genre outside of my comfort zone. The cover alone would have scared me away, however, I am glad to say that I accomplished the reading of <em>The Donors.</em> I found myself wanting to constantly get back to reading this book…it drew me into its pages—scary as they tended to be.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Wilson created believable characters that pulled me into their story. Nathan, a young boy, abused by his mom’s ex-boyfriend, ends up in the hospital where Jason works, and this is how these two are drawn into the action together. Nathan and Jason “are bound together by their common legacy, and they alone seem to share the ability to see the demons for what they are.” They must work together to stop the evil creatures.</p>
<p>If you have strong visual abilities, you might want to be careful where and when you read <em>The Donors</em>. Author Wilson does a fantastic job of describing scenes and events—however, readers beware! You will “see” things that you will want to forget and definitely won’t want to take them into your dreams. So if you enjoy the dark and scary, then <em>The Donors</em> is a book for you.</p>
<p>Reviewed by: <em>Joyce M. Gilmour</em> (2013)</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-tweet-button field-type-tweetbutton field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="tweetbutton-tweet tweetbutton"><a href="http://twitter.com/share" data-size="medium" data-count="horizontal" data-via="" data-related=":" data-text="" data-counturl="http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1227" data-url="http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1227" data-lang="en" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>First, books news. Two new books out. Translations for German, French, Spanish and Italian. Likely also Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Chinese with overseas editions for India and Indonesia done in English with publication in India. Second, Facebook. Recently, my followers rocketed to over 50,000. It's made sharing about my books, characters and creations a lot more fun, especially when you see 6000 or 7000 people have viewed something you posted. Hearing from a lot more readers in messages has been fun too.</p>
<p>Lately, I've been sharing pictures from my travel adventures, featuring everything from wild days in Hawaii to waterfalls. When I'm out on a trek whether in Yellowstone or the Columbia River Gorge or the South Pacific, my camera’s always with me and I enjoy sharing the pictures. Join me over on Facebook <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/RobertStanekAuthor">www.facebook.com/RobertStanekAuthor</a> to check them out. Thanks for reading! Until next time... Find my books on Barnes &amp; Noble at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/robert-stanek">www.barnesandnoble.com/s/robert-stanek</a>. Explore the Solar System (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/KpdJp9">http://bit.ly/KpdJp9</a>). Visit Magic Lands (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/KpdWZA">http://bit.ly/KpdWZA</a>). Meet the Elves of the Reaches (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/KpdFWm">http://bit.ly/KpdFWm</a>). Dance with Dragons (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/NhaVv8">http://bit.ly/NhaVv8</a>).</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Children under 12</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/78" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Children&#039;s</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/21" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fiction</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/58" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">MWSA Member</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/64" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Publishing</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/27" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sci-Fi</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/79" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Young Adults</a></div></div></div><div class="clear"><div>—</div><p><strong>William Robert Stanek</strong></p>
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<p>Meet the Critters: Buster, Lass, Dag, Barry, Cat &amp; All Their Friends!</p>
</div>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:47:18 +0000William Stanek1227 at http://www.mwsadispatches.comhttp://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1227#commentsBook news to Sharehttp://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1226
<div class="field field-name-field-tweet-button field-type-tweetbutton field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="tweetbutton-tweet tweetbutton"><a href="http://twitter.com/share" data-size="medium" data-count="horizontal" data-via="" data-related=":" data-text="" data-counturl="http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1226" data-url="http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1226" data-lang="en" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>First, books news. Two new books out. Translations for German, French, Spanish and Italian. Likely also Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Chinese with overseas editions for India and Indonesia done in English with publication in India. Second, Facebook. Recently, my followers rocketed to over 50,000. It's made sharing about my books, characters and creations a lot more fun, especially when you see 6000 or 7000 people have viewed something you posted. Hearing from a lot more readers in messages has been fun too.</p>
<p>Lately, I've been sharing pictures from my travel adventures, featuring everything from wild days in Hawaii to waterfalls. When I'm out on a trek whether in Yellowstone or the Columbia River Gorge or the South Pacific, my camera’s always with me and I enjoy sharing the pictures. Join me over on Facebook <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/RobertStanekAuthor">www.facebook.com/RobertStanekAuthor</a> to check them out. Thanks for reading! Until next time... Find my books on Barnes &amp; Noble at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/robert-stanek">www.barnesandnoble.com/s/robert-stanek</a>. Explore the Solar System (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/KpdJp9">http://bit.ly/KpdJp9</a>). Visit Magic Lands (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/KpdWZA">http://bit.ly/KpdWZA</a>). Meet the Elves of the Reaches (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/KpdFWm">http://bit.ly/KpdFWm</a>). Dance with Dragons (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/NhaVv8">http://bit.ly/NhaVv8</a>).</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Children under 12</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/78" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Children&#039;s</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/21" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fiction</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/58" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">MWSA Member</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/64" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Publishing</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/27" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sci-Fi</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/79" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Young Adults</a></div></div></div><div class="clear"><div>—</div><p><strong>William Robert Stanek</strong></p>
<p><strong>BUGVILLE CRITTERS (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bugvillecritters.com">www.bugvillecritters.com</a> )</strong></p>
<p>Meet the Critters: Buster, Lass, Dag, Barry, Cat &amp; All Their Friends!</p>
</div>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:47:11 +0000William Stanek1226 at http://www.mwsadispatches.comhttp://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1226#commentsBittersweet Tamedhttp://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1155
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<div><strong>Manufacturer:</strong> Emjay Publishing</div>
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<p>The intrepid pioneers finally tame the new planet only to by<br />threatened with annihilation by the returning Odeon Ancient Ones.</p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>MWSA Review</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Bittersweet Tamed: Book Three of the Odeon Trilogy </em>by David Michaelson is the final book of his science fiction adventure spanning hundreds of centuries and multiple solar systems. In the final book of the series, the two families who have made the 20,000 year trip from Earth and survived the massacre of all the other colonists on the new Bittersweet planet, have discovered others still cryogenically preserved in the planetside pods.</p>
<p>Initially 12 among the older humans are “awakened” so as to get their input on how to proceed with the hundreds of others. The hostile environment of the planet does not provide much food, and there is little shelter. Unfortunately, the mother ship that is still in orbit around the planet after 13 years is unwilling to send manned transports with the balance of the colonists expected supplies. This is due to the deadly pathogen that affects all who breathe the planetary air. The conclusion of the trilogy catalogues how the humans survive the deadly planet, form a governing body, work together to protect and preserve their culture, and aid the friendly aliens who have helped them.</p>
<p>Those who are fans of the first two books of The Odeon Trilogy will most certainly want answers to their questions and will be anxious to read how the adventure concludes!</p>
<p>Reviewed by: <em>Betsy Beard</em> (2012)</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mentioned field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Author(s) Mentioned:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Michaelson, David</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviewer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Reviewer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Beard, Betsy</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-worktype field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Work Type:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/book_reviews" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Book Reviews</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/21" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fiction</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/27" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sci-Fi</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/58" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">MWSA Member</a></div></div></div>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:47:17 +0000Jim Greenwald1155 at http://www.mwsadispatches.comhttp://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1155#comments